Coal Scam

Coal scam: Former coal secretary HC Gupta gets three years in jail

The court also awarded two year imprisonment to former joint-secretary in the Ministry of Coal, KS Kropha in the case and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000, while Gupta was asked to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh.

Coal scam: Delhi court convicts former coal secretary HC Gupta, others for corruption, criminal conspiracy

Gupta was earlier convicted in three other coal scam cases and his appeal against those convictions is pending before Delhi High Court. He is currently on bail

Coal scam: ED questions Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee's wife

The investigation is linked to an FIR filed by CBI in 2020 in a multi-crore rupees pilferage scam. CBI has so far questioned Rujira Narula Banerjee twice in connection with the scam

CBI quizzes TMC MLA Saokat Molla in coal pilferage scam

CBI official said that the TMC MLA also submitted documents related to his passport as well as investments and earnings to the CBI officers, which were sought from him

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, wife to appear before ED for questioning in connection with coal scam

Banerjee and his wife had earlier moved the court against the ED's summon to Delhi, stating that since both are residents of West Bengal, they should not be called by the agency to appear before it in the national capital. Their plea was dismissed

ED issues fresh summons to TMC's Abhishek Banerjee, wife in coal scam case

The ED lodged a case based on a November 2020 FIR registered by the CBI that alleged a multi-crore coal pilferage scam related to Eastern Coalfields Limited mines in the state's Kunustoria and Kajora areas in and around Asansol. The ED claimed that Abhishek Banerjee was a beneficiary of funds obtained from the illegal trade

Coal scam: ED searches Kolkata tourism firm's office in money laundering probe

The case was filed by the ED after studying a November 2020 FIR of the CBI that alleged a multi-crore coal pilferage scam related to Eastern Coalfields' mines at Kunustoria and Kajora areas in and around Asansol

Jharkhand coal scam: Delhi HC suspends 3-year jail term of ex-minister Dilip Ray, seeks CBI reply on appeal

A trial court on Monday had sentenced Ray, the 68-year old former minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, to three years in jail and also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on him

Jharkhand coal scam: CBI court sentences former Union minister Dilip Ray to 3 years’ imprisonment

The case pertains to the allocation of the Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih of Jharkhand to CTL in 1999

Coal scam: HC Gupta gets bail shortly after CBI court sentences former coal secretary to three years in prison

A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to former coal secretary HC Gupta and two others in the coal block allocation scam. This was minutes after a special CBI court sentenced Gupta and the other convicts in the case to three years in jail. As the sentence awarded was less than seven years, the convicts were entitled to appeal for bail, which they got soon after the sentencing.